 If you liked
ef: A Tale of Memories.
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 ...then you might like
Isshuukan Friends.
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A boy trying to make friends with a girl who is constantly losing her memories.
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Recommended by BreezeElric
Memories and innocent love. Isshukan Friends is very similar to Chihiro's Story in Ef- A Tale of Memories: a fleeting memory, a persistent boy and a girl that just wants to believe in friendship and love.
Same premise of a boy trying to make friends with a girl who has memory issues. Isshuukan Friends is light hearted while ef: A Tale of Memories is more on the sad side. Both are great, however, I feel like Isshuukan messed up its ending while ef had a great one.
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Recommended by imscaredtof9
A heroine having her memories reset and a guy helping her regain it who actually has feelings for her too.
Both have character development along the way.
Both have good theme songs.
Differences:
Ef has deeper plot (and revolves around other couple) while Isshuukan Friends mostly revolve around the main couple and has a simple plot.
Ef has the 3D/poetic/eroge-like graphics while Isshuukan Friends has the 2D/artistic water color-like graphics.
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Recommended by stream_eon
Male lead is trying to make friend with the female lead who is extremely shy, as well as having a memory deficiency that prevents her from making friends. However, the male lead's persistent attitude toward their friendship slowly begin to open up the girl' heart.
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Recommended by bunny1ov3r
Is similar about the Chihiro's arc.
A girl with mental illness, she forget everything in a lapse of time...but one guy try to build a relationship with she, and probably ends in love.
Isshuukan Friends is more innocent than ef a tale of memories.
+ A girl loses her memory and has trouble making friends, but a guy is determined to become close to her despite that
+ While Ef is definitely heavier on drama, Isshukan Friends also has drama mostly from the memory loss problem
- Ef has more romance and another story alongside the memory loss story involving a love triangle
- Shaft's animation in Ef is much more unique and psyxhological than the softer and lighter animation style in Isshukan Friends
Both series deal with love, and have an important female character losing her memories in a set cycle. The protagonist of Isshuukan helps the memory-losing girl in a similar way to Renji helping Chihiro.
Ef is more serious and sadder, while Isshuukan is more innocent, light-hearted and has comedy.
While sometimes with a similar feel, Isshuukan's artstyle is soft and soothing, compared to Ef's more out-there and camera work-oriented visuals.
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Recommended by GoldenPincers
Both have a girl with memory loss and a boy trying to be their friend. Atmosphere is similar as well.
Both main male character try to keep his relationship with the main male character when she lost her memories
Both worth to watch
One of the stories in ef: coincides with the plot of One Week Friends in that they both involve the female lead having a form of amnesia, which activated after a certain time interval. In both cases, the male lead tries to help give them a sense of belonging with a touch of romance (although ef: focuses more on the romance)
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Recommended by Short_Circut